After international warnings of the seriousness of the situation, the President of Ukrainian municipality of Energodar In an online post, on Friday, it was reported that the nearby Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant caught fire.
And the Ukrainian authorities announced that the Russian forces were firing from all sides at the Zaporizhia nuclear plant, stressing that if an explosion occurred there, it would be 10 times stronger than what happened at the Chernobyl plant.
These developments came after the municipality announced that a convoy of Russian forces headed late Thursday evening towards the station, which is the largest of its kind in Europe.
Mayor Dmytro Orlov added that loud gunshots can be heard in the town.
intense efforts
Before that, Russian forces had seized the Chernobyl station, about 100 km north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, after intensive efforts.
This came amid international warnings of the seriousness of the situation, as the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, called on Thursday, the Russian and Ukrainian forces to stop fighting in that region (the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant).
These places are witnessing violent clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces, amid international warnings of the seriousness of the situation.
Ninth day and rounds of talks
It is noteworthy that the Russian military operation, which was launched on February 24 (2022), days after Moscow recognized the independence of the separatist regions of Dugansk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, has entered its ninth day, after months of escalating tension between the Kremlin and the West.
This prompted the European Union and the United States, as well as Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan and others to impose harsh and painful sanctions on the Russians, and led to the flow of Western weapons and military support to Kiev, in order to confront the Russian attack.
Meanwhile, Kyiv and Moscow agreed on Thursday to establish humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians in the second round of talks since the start of the Russian military operation last week.
The talks between the two delegations, which are being held in the Polivskaya Pocha region of Brest on the Belarusian border, close to Poland, are continuing, after they started last Monday, when the two sides held the first meeting on February 28, which ended without achieving tangible progress, until they agreed to hold a second meeting that ended yesterday. Thursday, and the third will be held early next week.